Improvement in hair-clipping devices



F. C..RICHARDS0N.v Improvement in Hair-Clipping'Devices. No. 114,477. Patented May 2,1871.

- intimi hm @sind @fiile FREDERICK CHARLES RICHARDSON, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM HELLINS, OF HUDSON g CITY, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 1174,477, dated May 2', 1871; antedated April 27, 187i.

IIVIPRQVEMENT IN HAIR-CLIPPING DEVICES.

The Schedule referred tn ln these Letters Patent and maldng part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK CHARLES RICH- ARDsON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clipping-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable those skilled in the art to make andas shears for clipping the hair of horses or other animais; and

It consists of a certain combination, construction, and arrangement of parts, as will hercinafter'more fully be described.

The letter A in the drawing designates a plate which, when operating the instrument, rests upon the skin ot' the animal.

The front end ofthe plate A terminates in a series of teeth, B, extending acrossthe width of the plate, and which are intended to receive between them the hairs of the coating of the animal.

In this example the teeth B are parallel with each other, but they may be serrated like saw-teeth when my instrument is to be used for clipping sheep and other animals having thick and heavy coatings. i

'Ihe implement is supported, while being operated, A,

by means of a handle, C, and the cutter is operated by means of a lever, D, as follows:

Said `lever I) is fixed to the shaft of a large toothed wheel, E, which is supported by a cross-bar, It, which extends across plate A, and is connected thereto by its ends in such a manner that the cutterG can move freely beneath it..

The toothed wheel E engages a smaller toothed wheel, H, which is supported above the surface ot' plate A in like manner, and from shaft of said wheel H extends an arm or lever, I, which is connected to the arm J of the cutter by mean's of' a link, K, whose ends are pivotedto the arms I J.

The end ot' the cutter G is sharpened on both sides, and it extends to the further end ot' the plate, so that it can be moved to and fro over the teeth B.

The end of the cutter is held down to the teeth and confined in its proper place by means of an elevated cross-har, L, whose ends are supported on the plate A by screws, M M, working through the bottom of the plate, by means of which screws the cross-har can be adjusted to and'froni the plate. w

Under the cross-bar L, I provide a loose spring wear# ing-bar, N, with which the cutter comes in contact, and which consequently receives wear from the movements ot the cutter and saves the rigid cross-bar L.

rIhe ends ofthe spring bar N areapertbiated to letv the screws M M pass through them, and around the shanks ofthe screws I coil springs O O, which rest on plate A and support 'the loose bar N and press it up` against the rigid bar L. When the bar N is worn it can be replaced by a fresh one. i

I provide in the plate A, behind the series of teeth B, an opening, I,for thedischarge and escape ot' the clippings which are removed by the cutter, so that the v cutter and other parts will not he liable to becone clogged by them.

'Ihe cutter Gr is pivoted to the plate A by a pivot, Q, and it is arranged next the plate and beneath the driving mechanism.

What I claim as new, andrdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The plate N, supported. by the springs O O- against the cross-bar L, arranged upon the shanks oi' the screws M M, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The toothed Wheel E mounted upon 'the bar F and operated by the lever D, in combination with the 'wheel H, bar I, connected to the arm J of the cutter G by the link K, when said cutter freely slides between the cross-bar F and the plate A, as herein shown and described.

F. O. RICHARDSON. Witnesses:

E. F. BILHUBEB, E. F. KAsTnNHUBEn. 

